Browsing by Subject "Art History"
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Analyzing the Crisis of Hilma af Klint: The Digital and Analog Analysis of Spirituality, Abstraction, and Art
(2018)Hilma af Klint, an oft-cited but underresearched Swedish artist, is often included in art historical literature on art and spirituality. And yet, the assumed art world affinity between Swedish artist Hilma af Klint and other ... -
Carnival Is Woman!: Gender, Performance, and Visual Culture in Contemporary Trinidad Carnival
(2009)While great strides have been made in the study of Trinidad Carnival, there has yet to be a robust inquiry into how women have contributed to its evolution. One major reason for this shortcoming is that the dominant cultural ... -
Color, Hygiene, and Body Politics: French Neo-Impressionist Theories of Vision and Volition, 1870-1905
(2010)Color, Hygiene, and Body Politics: French Neo-Impressionist Theories of Vision and Volition, 1870-1905, explores the little studied "pragmatic" dimension of Neo-Impressionist theory and practice to reveal the full social ... -
Enduring Belief: Performance, Trauma, Religion
(2010)The medium of performance art locates both the art-making subject and the art object in the body of the artist. Performance art thus serves as an appropriate medium for integrating the complex, repetitive, and often unconscious ... -
Friars in the City: Mendicant Architecture and Pious Practice in Medieval Verona, c. 1220-c. 1375
(2010)This dissertation explores how the combination of pious practice, economic activity, and religious poverty shaped the architecture of the mendicants in medieval Verona. It also examines how the presence of the friars affected ... -
Hogarth's Progress: "Modern Moral Subjects" in the Work of David Hockney, Lubaina Himid and Paula Rego
(2011)HOGARTH'S PROGRESS: `MODERN MORAL SUBJECTS' IN THE ART OF DAVID HOCKNEY, LUBAINA HIMID AND PAULA REGOAn Abstract byMora J. Beauchamp-Byrd Hogarth's Progress: "Modern Moral Subjects" in the Work of David Hockney, Lubaina ... -
Melancholy Sites: The Affective Politics of Marginality in Post-Anpo Japan (1960-1970)
(2011)This dissertation examines the intersection of experimental art, literature, performance, photography, and architecture, as Japanese artists and intellectuals grappled with political disillusionment after the end of the ... -
Modernity, Sanitation and the Public Bath: Berlin, 1896-1933, as Archetype
(2007-12-14)This dissertation documents and analyzes the architecture of the working-class bathhouse - its emergence in the nineteenth-century and revision and continued elaboration in the twentieth. It is a case study that examines ... -
Naked and Unashamed: A Study of the Aphrodite Anadyomene in the Greco-Roman World
(2010)This dissertation presents a study of the Aphrodite Anadyomene type in its cultural and physical contexts. Like many other naked Aphrodites, the Anadyomene was not posed to conceal the body, but with arms raised, naked ... -
Transition in Post-soviet Art: "Collective Actions" before and after 1989
(2009)For more than three decades the Moscow-based conceptual artist group "Collective Actions" has been organizing actions. Each action, typically taking place at the outskirts of Moscow, is regarded as a trigger for a series ...
